B.S. - University of Maryland Baltimore County (2006), Geography and Environmental Science

Professional Experience

IT Applications Manager, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Office of Enterprise Information, October 2017 – Present

Skills

Develop a breadth of knowledge about current and future directions for operational support of data and analytics at USGS and DOI.

Provide expertise on AWS products.

Provide experience in requirements development, design, and project management of large IT systems.

Duties

Participate in Open Data/ Open Access activities

USGS representative at Interagency Working Group on Open Science Committee on Science

USGS representative on DOI OCIO Managing Data as a Strategic Asset working group

USGS secondary contact for Data.gov

USGS Strategic Labs Committee and Quality Management System Working Group

Investigating applications of AWS to support CMC activities

Develop data standards across business information system to support CMC activities

Manage OEI applications in SharePoint and USGS Forms

Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Eastern Geographic Science Center, 2014 - 2017:

Skills

Developed requirements and specifications for several web based applications (listed below) to meet scientific objectives of the USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies. This included working directly with scientists as customers and evaluating available resources to select the most cost effective and timely solutions to meet requirements. A specialty was implementing open source solutions in the cloud and drawing from industry standard best practices.

Conducted review, testing, and approval of applications as the applications project manager.

Managed documentation and standard operating procedures written to support development or operation of applications.

Monitored application life cycles, including application reviews, changes in response to customer needs, and evaluation of continued application support.

Created effective teams by encouraging mentoring, training, and communication and implementing RAD and AGILE development methodologies.

Maintained operations without significant project delays or increased cost through employee transitions that had a major impact on the team’s development approach.

Networked with several other application development teams in the USGS, including creating partnerships to transition work from EGSC staff.

Created and implemented data management procedures for data release at EGSC.

Developed a breadth of knowledge about diverse scientific research across the USGS.

Duties

USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies Science Team Lead on Managing and Providing Information.

Data management and integration with the Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Project

Developed leadership skills working with the Chesapeake Bay Studies Science Team Leads and taking on project management tasks at EGSC.

Gathered use case requirements and gave input to design of web applications.

Wrote and implemented JavaScript code to support the development of large web application and took the lead on developing smaller applications. This included learning best practices from industry, working with code repositories for quality control, introduction to procedure and code documentation, and testing prototypes.

Networked within the USGS CDI to learn about new best practices for Data Management.

Duties

USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies Science Team Lead on Managing and Providing Information.

EGSC Data Management support and guidance

EGSC web applications developer

USGS Disease Maps Website, Project Manager

Eastern Geographic Science Center, 2006 - 2011:

Skills

Developed team collaboration skills.

Focused on use case requirement gathering from science experts.

Wrote and implemented JavaScript code to support the development of large web application and took the lead on developing smaller applications. This included learning best practices from industry, working with code repositories for quality control, introduction to procedure and code documentation, and testing prototypes.

Team lead on design of COAST online decision support tools and website framework.

EGSC web application developer

Additional Professional Experience:

2000 - 2006

Early career skills as a student intern included specializing in GIS techniques for scientific research, introduction to web services and web applications, and developing teamwork skills in small teams as support staff.